Giorgia Meloni has warned that Ursula von der Leyen only has a “fragile majority” for a second term at the helm of the European Commission, unless a deal to distribute the bloc’s top jobs takes into account Rome’s demands.
Meloni was speaking ahead of an EU summit on Thursday that is to decide the line-up of senior positions. The Italian prime minister slammed a group of six centrist EU leaders for sealing a deal that for a second time excluded her.
Meloni called the consensus reached without her own hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) “a mistake” and warned that the nominees were “destined to have difficulties in the European legislature”.